The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-23

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THE Cdledonian notes that one of the
annoying features of the use of "plate
matter was illustrated in recent issue
of the Free Press, which contained q
report of the accident al" Whitewater"
THE danger of war in Europe arises
in the restoration of France to first
class military position. The French
army is twice as large as it was under
the rotten empire and four times as
efficient.
THE railroad commissioners will be
panied to learn that the Fair Haven
Era is dissatisfied with them in a meas
ure-probably because they have sought
to form their conclusions in accordance
with facts.
THE senatorial contests in West
Virginia and New Jersey are still I'M
settled In the latter state the demo-
Gratis have seated two contestants who
have no legal right to seats, but the
end is not yet.
A SUBSCRIBER is informed that
the interstate commerce law does not
apply to passenger or freight traffic
carried on wholly rithin one state, but
to interchange of traffic between one
state and another.
THE Free Press disclaims any ma
licious intent in its high-coored reports
of the railroad disaster. This dis
claimer was needed, though it will not
change the opinion of many people
concerning the matter.
SOME people who oppose the Eads
Tehuantepec ship railway project say
there is Job " in it. But the same
people favor the Nicaragua canal
project, and other people allege that
there is JOB "-and big one, too
in that.
EVEN the four northern New En-
gland States could muster quite an
army if called upon. According to the
report of the acknowledgement of the
army, they have an organized militia
force of 1920 men and an available
force of 443, 1886.
THE Kansas legislature has passed
the bill giving municipal suffrage to
women. The senate gave twenty-five
votes for to thirteen against, nearly
two to one; the house gave ninety
| Untnc for n WIZ anainSt
than four to one.
HIS (the Presidents action has been
very much criticised, when taken in
connection with his readiness to sign
the Mexican pension bill, which has
more injustice written all through it
than can be discovered in the dependent
bill just vetoed.-HarDord Post.
THE Montreal carnival was not alto
gether a failure, for the Burlington
Clipper reports that two gentlemen who
engaged rooms at a hotel for them
selves and wives two weeks before the
carnival were charged SIG a day from
the time of engagement, nearly twenty
days, though they occupied them but
three.
THE Burlington Independent finds
that "patent insides " are not always an
advantage. 1t says: " Papers not en-
tirely printed at home are subject oc-
casionallv to such a mistake as came to
our lot last week, whereby the chapters
of that brilliant story, The Wreck, ,
that were printed the week before were
produced second time"
CONGREsSMAN-EL JOHN II. Dali
zELL, the eloquent young lawyer of
Pittsburg, who resembles Senator Ev-
arts in the slenderness of his figure and
the contour of his face, said here in
the course of the week that there is no
republican in the state of PENNSYLVANIA
who is not for James G. Blaine for
president in 1SSS.-Ne,C York Tribune.
IN a lengthy article entitled Gossip
About Great Men," in the Burlington
Free Press of February 16, we were
somewhat surprised to find the follow
ing statement:
Edmunds likes il is said, a fine brand
of old Bourbon, and Ingalls, is not adverse
! to the best of good sherry. Neither of them
however, has ever been known to drink
more than was good for him."
On his eighty-ffth birthday, Janu-
airy %, General F. E Spinner, register
of the treasury in war time, wrote from
Fl rida to friend: " In answer to your
question, How many wonders have
been added to the seven ancient won
ders of the world?' l will say: The
Suspension Bridge, Bartholdi's Statue
of Liberty Enlightening the World, the
Suez canal, the electric light, the sew
ing-machine, the railroads and the
democratic party, the latter beating all
others, for it has as many lives as a
cat"
THE makers of the interstate COM
merce law probably supposed that they
were striking at two great interests:
Cd the Standard Oil Company; (2)
the Vanderbilt railway system. 1t
turns out that the Standard Oil men
have pipelines and special cars and
access to the lakes, such that the great
bill to regulate everything will not
touch them. AS for the Vanderbilts,
they happen to own two lines, or two
series of lines, and can use one for the
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